Maybelle

I have a symbolic pair of grumpy/stubborn pants that I find myself putting on from time to time so I can further stick my feet in the mud and hold on to dear life against change.

I don’t want to give up my landline for a cell phone so people can contact me all the time always no matter where I am or what I’m doing!

I don’t want to use social media so I can always know when someone is eating a chocolate Sunday or that they are currently shopping for dog food at Walmart!

I don’t want to watch movies or series on a computer!

This last one has been the hardest for me. I HATE watching anything on my laptop. I just hate it. I’ve got a 55 inch Sony High Definition Television, so why in the world would I want to give up all of that glorious 55 inch HD beauty for a tiny laptop that I bought back in the now technology dark age of 2009?!

Well, I don’t. Sure, I could hookup my laptop to my fancy schmancy 55 inch TV, but that takes FOR-EV-ER, as in I have to hook it up, figure out why it’s not working because it never works on the first hookup, unhook it, turn off everything, re-hookup everything, turn everything back on and then finally I can sit down and watch a web series on my TV. But usually these web series have episodes that last 5 or 10 minutes long, so then I have to get up and walk all the way over to my computer and start up the next episode. Netflix starts the next damn episode automatically without me even having to hit a button on my remote, much less having to get up and walk all the way to my TV, so why should I give up my TV again for a web series on my laptop? Well, here’s the one severe problem in my grumpy and stubborn pants wearing – this wardrobe is keeping me away from some really good web series out there, especially lesbian web series.

One of my New Year’s resolutions this year was to take off those grumpy/stubborn pants occasionally and try something that I don’t want to try, but really should. So recently I sat down and turned on my laptop and picked out a lesbian web series to watch. I went to a site called tello films because they got nothing but lesbian web series and a lot of really talented people work on these series and all of my grumpy/stubborn pants wearing is just keeping me away from some quality lesbianness and there isn’t enough lesbianness on the TV anyway, much less quality lesbianness, so that was my reasoning for sitting down and choosing tello films. And because I have a free subscription with them right now, so really what in the hell is my problem anyway?!

The web series that I picked to help me take off my grumpy/stubborn pants was Maybelle. It’s about a woman named (big surprise) Maybelle who is 35 and living in the South (being a Southern girl myself, I was hooked right there) and who has spent years taking care of her ailing mother, but now she must try to find a way in the world for herself since her mother has recently passed away. And who should conveniently show up just as she’s trying to live this new life for herself but none other than her former high school girlfriend who she hasn’t seen in many, many years. Sexual tension and heartache and drama and laughter and tears ensue, and for about an hour, I had one hell of a good time.

So see, I was missing out on this wonderful series because I have bad fashion sense. Well, bad fashion sense be damned, because I’m off now to watch another tello series! And because I’m pretty sure that my free subscription is running out, so I better get in my quality lesbian series watching while my budget can afford it. Toodles!

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Dedication

Movies OVER The Rainbow is dedicated to my beautiful and sexy wife, who turned the volume down just enough on my very insecure, depressed, anxiety, insomnia-prone brain and encouraged me to create this website.

P.S.: My wife also gets the sole and only credit for coming up with the title of this website, Movies OVER The Rainbow. I couldn’t think of a damn title, because I’m terrible at coming up with titles, and so just sat in front of my computer forever and a day going, “Huh?” but in about two seconds, she came up with Movies OVER The Rainbow, and so saved my sanity, once again. She also came up with the title for the latest novel I’m writing, so basically, my wife is the title writer in the family, along with being the medical person and all around savior of me. I just write all the millions of words here.

About MOTR

Movies OVER The Rainbow (also known as MOTR) was created in 2011 by Ali Naro, but only because my wife finally got me to get off of my way too insecure butt with her infamous words, “Get to writing about movies, woman!” And so, I did. 🙂

Movies OVER The Rainbow is a website dedicated exclusively to LGBT entertainment, which includes reviews and blogs about LGBT films, TV series, documentaries, reality series, web series and more.

All reviews and blogs are written by me, Ali Naro. So, it’s just me and only me who watches and writes all the reviews and blogs and whatever the hell else I got going on MOTR at any given whim or break in a depression cycle, so basically everything you see here is just done by little ole me, so sometimes it takes me much longer than I like to update the website. Well, occasionally my wife will step in and help me with the technical aspect of actually keeping this website operational because I usually want to yell and crush the computer with a sledgehammer when I can’t get the website to run properly and she would like the computer to survive because we don’t have an unending pile of money to keep us well stocked in computers. So anyway, I try to post a new review/blog/whatever I’m in the mood to write every week, although sometimes that doesn’t happen because I’m involved with another writing project, life has gotten too hectic, or my depressed, anxious, and insomniac-prone brain has gotten in the way, so in other words, check back often because you never know when I’ve gotten my shit together to actually write something.

I am a lifelong movie fan, lesbian, and writer. Having this website has been a dream project of mine since I was a little girl and wanted to be a movie critic on Siskel and Ebert, except I wanted to be nicer. Well, they could be kind of mean, especially Siskel and I would wonder why in the Hell are they film critics if they hate films so much?! Although, Ebert did seem to like movies a lot more than Siskel.

P.S.: I can no longer keep up with the ever changing world of political correctness. If I use a term or word or whatever in the hell that is suddenly no longer PC, you’ll just have to live with what I wrote. Believe it or not, I actually spend many, many, too many hours just writing the few paragraphs that make up my reviews and blogs, so if I’ve picked a word that is “offensive” then I’ve done it on purpose to make a point. I know we all want everything all the time to be fair and equal, but you can’t always get what you want and I know it sucks, but life and all is like that sometimes. It’s good for you. It builds character or as my dad always says, “It’ll make hair grow on your chest,” which is apparently a good thing in my dad’s book, although I’m not sure why, hence my weekly therapy sessions that lasted for two decades.

P.S.S.: I know we keep adding and subtracting letters to the LGBT alphabet, but for now I’m just keeping it LGBT because I don’t have the time or resources to keep up with our every changing minds on who wants to be in our club and who wants to leave. All I know is that I like our club and I’m proud to be the “L” in that alphabet.

Contact and Social Media Info

For more information about MOTR or if you want MOTR to know about your LGBT film/TV project for possible publication on this website, contact me, Ali Naro at –
Email: alicat3955@gmail.com

I’m getting more and more requests to review films for MOTR, which is great, but scary, but still it is great, but still it is really, really scary. But anyway, the point of all this great and scary stuff is that it now takes me a couple of weeks to get a review published to MOTR after I receive a request, so if you are willing to put on your patient pants, then I will do my best to get a review published as soon as I can and hopefully it will be worth the wearing of those very uncomfortable patient pants. Well, I sure do hate wearing them. As Carrie Fisher says, “Instant gratification takes too long.” Boy, does it ever. And boy, is the world going to miss Carrie or what? Carrie saved my life so many times. I have suffered from debilitating depression since I was 11 years old, and her books about her mental illness, Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic, were so real and so true about what it is like not to sleep for days on end, getting electric shock treatment, being so depressed you don’t leave your bed for days and days and days and that you think no one in the world loves you and you are a horrible person who deserves all of this horror and madness. She was so honest about all of this, yet she would also find the humor in it too, the humor that keeps us living instead of giving in to the voices screaming in our head to just die already you worthless piece of shit. I would miss literally (and I mean literally) sleep for 24, 48, 72 hours at a time and trust me, you start to lose your fucking mind, and so I would play Wishful Drinking and Shockaholic on my iPod and later iPhone (because God forbid technology lasts more than 6 days anymore) and she would tell me it’s okay to be sad. It’s okay not to sleep. I do the same. We are ok. I think. Well, we think we are okay and who the hell else matters but us anyway? And that is when Carrie would get me to laugh and laugh and laugh, especially during a time when barely anyone or anything could make me laugh, Carrie did. She was that magical, wonderful and beautiful. All I ever wanted to do was tell her thank you. So Carrie, wherever you are, thank you. I hope your beautiful, sad, hilarious, wonderful soul is finally resting in peace now.

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Are you sure you dare to go on social media? Well okay, but just be careful of those word bombs and bullets. Someone should invent a social media bullet proof vest so you can be protected while perusing the insanity that for once isn’t in my head, but instead on social media…Toodles! 😉